A. Zocco   N. F. Loureiro   D. Dickinson   R. Numata   C. M. Roach   
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION 57(6) 2015年6月 [査読有り]
The problem of the linear microtearing mode in a slab magnetised plasma, and its connection to kinetic reconnecting modes, is addressed. Electrons are described using a novel hybrid fluid-kinetic model that captures electron heating, ions are gyro...
Ryusuke Numata   N. F. Loureiro   
JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS 81 2015年4月 [査読有り]
Magnetic reconnection and associated heating of ions and electrons in strongly magnetized, weakly collisional plasmas are studied by means of gyrokinetic simulations. It is shown that an appreciable amount of the released magnetic energy is dissip...
Sumire Kobayashi   Barrett N. Rogers   Ryusuke Numata   
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 21(4) 2014年4月 [査読有り]
We present nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection with non-uniformities in the plasma density, the electron temperature, and the ion temperature. The density gradient can stabilize reconnection due to diamagnetic ...